Comments by "Steven Gill" (@stevengill1736) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Yup, I was going to make a witty comment, but the hot dry wind evaporated it from my mind. ;*[} Yeah, here in northern California we've thought about those solutions for evaporation, but they all would cut back on the summer skinnydip too much...cheers.
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  2. Pretty neat....it was the other way around with my dad, as he was the one that got me started with computers, and I guess my older brother was the one who started him....
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  3. Wait - I thought it was like on that show, "For All Mankind"..... ;^=[}
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  4. Wow, I lived in the bay area back then....used to pass that plant going to Fry's for computer gear....another era. ;*[} Interesting history...cheers.
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  5. Makes sense - GPUs do nothing but draw millions of triangles all day long, so...
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  6. The specific heat (abolity to transfer heat) of water isn't affected as much by impurities as other properties, unless there's enough to change that property - for instance antifreeze reduces the heat transfer ability a little, but it's worth it if it keeps a cooling system from freezing.
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  7. Many great sci fi stories included either solar light mirroring or more commonly power from solar panels in orbit converted to microwave and beamed to rectennas on Earth (rectennas = antennas that convert microwave to electrical energy). The usual sci fi scenarios usually included the microwave beam drifting off target and incinerating towns, cities, etc....dunno how realistic that would be but it made for great space opera.
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  8. We were so lucky to grow up in this era....
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  9. It's a mess, and with the premier fab of the world dangling like ripe fruit practically a stone's throw off the Chinese mainland...as Sherlock Holmes used to say, "these are deep waters, Watson"...deep waters indeed.
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  10. It would be interesting to hear about the greening of photoresist chemistry.... I had no idea fluoropolymers played a role since it seems they'd be hard to remove! Cheers...
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  11. People mention chess and go as landmarks in neural net/machine learning, but seldom mention Google's Deep Dream, which for me was a fascinating implementation of this technology. The fact that you could instantiate a basic version on your own machine, including (if I remember correctly) porting all calculations via CUDA to your GPU. That was really fun, and that was when, 2015? I can't wait to see the future of this development. Thank you kindly for the overview, which was sorely needed!
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  12. Just hope the runoff doesn't affect the Great Barrier Reef....
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  13. This is such a cliche, but the year really flew by....! Thank you kindly Jon, and happy merry...."have a cool yule and a frantic first...." NB: The diversity of subject matter is always appreciated! Cheers ..
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  14. So THAT'S how TSMC started! But what's going on in the world that's any different from other years? "Same as it ever was" as the song goes, we're just moving into that future described by Blade Runner and other cyberpunk fiction of yesteryear...
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  15. Design for disassembly is needed....if more things were manufactured with recycling in mind it'd be a lot better IMHO. As for lead/acid....yikes! Our recycling of lead at 99% is something to be proud of. And, if those old lithium batteries still work at 85%, I know a lot of stand-alone solar power people that would love a few!
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  16. So how does this tie into the "surveillance state" model?
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  17. Coils, yay! Next comes radio. ;*[} (or rather next comes analog ML...) And phase change sounds slow....like burning DVDs... we'll see - cheers.
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  18. I loved the end: "all right folks, thanks for WATCHing....."
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  19. Had no idea China had cornered the Ge and Ga market too!! Cool that the recycling is so good, but for Ge it sounds like it's mostly military, so not necessarily long term dependable. Gallium is totally cool....any metal that melts in your hand is cool (except NaK, the sodium potassium eutectic of course - that would happily burn in your flesh) I don't think such limits to technology ever work in the long run... IMHO only the Chinese people can change China's politics in the long run....
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  20. That's right, VHS was analog.....wow. Did they ever use a video version of DAT?
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  21. With us it was those radios and fireworks - junior high school was like mad bomber school for one spring in 1965 - they had to threaten the entire 7th & 8th grade with expulsion to stop firecrackers and M-80s from flying during every recess.....
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  22. And for a different view, try Rupert Sheldrake.....he gas YT vids, but his theories aren't accepted generally....
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  23. I'm sure everyone was wondering what your opinion on LLMs would be .. Underwhelming or overtaking, it's not the singularity of our ancestors....
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  24. So you think it was worth it? Hopefully you didn't have to sell your car twice to cover it. 😊
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  25. Only 40% of our meds come from India? I thought it was 60 or more! But if you separate generics it makes sense I guess. And wow, India's first generic success was propranolol? I was one of their first customers in 1987 or so. It was way less expensive as a generic. It's an amazing story that was really augmented by the AIDS epidemic and India's willingness to produce them less expensively, which saved many lives.
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  26. You probably remember hearing about the severe land subsidence here in California in the Central Valley during the drought a few years ago.....
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  27. Foopadelic baby!
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  28. Were you inspired to do a video on this subject by the news that someone was able to trigger a data dump from ChatGTP by asking it to repeat a woro or phrase over and over again forever? Talk about topical! I just heard the news about that today. But that was an easy fix - your video follows the idea to the ultimate - pretty amazing. https://youtu.be/KwpeuqT69fw?si=NpZPkyO9sEEv9Pj8
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  29. Someone stuck a magnetic mount passive RFID on the back of my pickup truck a couple years ago....I wonder what for? The cops use active ones, plus it6been many moons since any agency would be interested in me... But a passive one.....what would be the point? These days RFIDs don't work for theft prevention because these days thieves are so brazen they don't care if alarms go off....
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  30. Bitched about the electrical draw of machine learning data centers, but I forgot about the water footprint! Holy kitty cats...water cooling in power production too.... kilowatts and gallons and cooling, oh my! (the more I learn about this the less interested I am in so-called AI, but meanwhile I was dreaming of data centers in Antarctica)
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  31. Remember the AI - run paper clip factory? Instead AI will make us build server farms and data centers! 😮
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  32. That's what I wondered, if the silicon components are getting smaller than the wavelength of visible light, how to integrate them? Wow!
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  33. "Oak Ridge nuclear and hot chicken lab"?? Lost me on that one....but that fiendish DRIE.... that's amazing! Cheers..
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  34. This tech has made medical x-rays far safer too...
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  35. And I think we all wonder what's next with China's SC industry! Them and Taiwan of course....
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  36. I guess there's still a market for luxury watches like Rolex...other than that, what- data watches for athletes, etc? Interesting that they farmed out (literally!) part production to rural people who had little to do in the winter - probably better pay than being a task rabbit training large language models or the like for what, 35 cents an hour?
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  37. Thank you for not being sucked into the political machinations!
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  38. Yes...."he decided to make Intel the MacDonalds of semiconductors,.." With all that entails.....
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  39. Plus more recently (post WW II days) the highways and later freeways were drafted into the Cold war and were expected to be able to carry massive movement of people and war material in case of nuclear attack.
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  40. I agree 100%, but it's always like that, isn't it? Do you remember that TV series, "Silicon Valley"? I still think they pretty much nailed it, and even today their insights apply....always enjoy your insights n usually agree - I personally think its a bit of overkill, and unless we develop fusion power, somewhat wasteful....cheers.
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  41. Yes, and the amounts are truly industrial - but so are the other pharmaceuticals, and for that matter, all the other sources of chemical contamination eg perfluorosurfactants and other "forever chemicals", etc.
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  42.  @masternobody1896  ...and lower power consumption so things stay cooler & batteries last longer - that's what I'm looking forward to. Cheers...
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  43. Sorry, you're right - editing....
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  44. Hey man....another great electronics history lesson - thank you kindly! You were talking about US Navy efforts at breaking German code from subs during WW II - didn't the UK share their info on Enigma? Or I guess that was later... My brother was in the US Navy school at Monterey, CA in the 80s, and one of the things that he was allowed to show visitors was their Cray Supercomputer Center...it was suitably impressive! By now my laptop plus a couple NVIDIA GPUs could probably do the same job ;^[}
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  45. Everybody raced to get the weapons of war - the Soviet's got the nerve gas plants and the US got the rocket scientists... But the area was helped by the Marshall Plan, even East Germany to a minor extent. (I believe there was a black market even there??) ....and the uprising in East Germany started as I was born...all my fault no doubt.
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  46. It feels like a form of magnetism...
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  47. FINFETs, cool! This 3D direction is going to be incredible!Cheers. .
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  48. Besides Aum Shinrikyo there was the followers of Bagwan Rajneesh, who as part of a political campaign in Oregon distributed home grown salmonella to restaurants in a town near them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack
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  49. Totally amazing! Talk about a formula with multiple variables...am I mistaken, or would this benefit from machine learning, eg LLMs? (just as I wrote this, Jon mentioned it) Synopsis, wow, I'm impressed. Same thing's happening with molecular design in pharmaceutical development, and all sorts of other material designing fields.....thanks Jon, I missed this one when it came out....
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  50. Trains are so cool....they really held us together during covid, and now the ability to move freight east to west coast & vice versa has helped tremendously in these recent days of supply chain disturbances and drought in Panama..... Your choices of topics have been quite germane to current events - cheers ... And as the song goes, "these are the days of miracles and wonders..." And one of these wonders has been the people who jump trains for amusement or just wanderlust....plenty of these adventures here on YT. Trains are a great way to travel, but less here than in Nexico or in Europe. I got to ride Ferrocarriles de México for a couple weeks when I was a kid......that was an adventure! Cheers....
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